Word: sybil
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COWARD, however, belongs anywhere but in People. His plays combine wry, sophisticated wit, elegant characters and light, measured farce. Coward relies on the English language--not only what words express clearly and openly, but also what they hide and subtly suggest. A line as unpromising as "don't quibble. Sybil" conveys much with its brevity, sound and the actor's accompanying expressions and pauses...
Five years before Elyot meets the disagreeing Sybil, and before Private Lives begins, Elyot and Amanda divorce. As the play opens, the two are newly remarried, he to Sybil (Katryn Walker), she to Victor Prynne (John Cullum). Embarrassingly enough, both couples honeymoon in Deauville. Worse yet, their respective suites share a balcony. But Elyot is as unsuited for the flighty, girlish Sybil as Amanda is for the formal, gentlemanly Victor. While Amanda and Elyot rediscover their old love. Coward argues, always humorously, that passion often blends both tenderness and hostility. And the tender and hostile moments in the Private Lives...
There were other constituencies to tend to as well. At the British Home in Sierra Madre, a retirement camp for expatriates, the Queen tramped from stucco bungalow to bungalow, pleasing the 38 residents almost unbearably. The oldest, Sybil Jones-Bateman, 97, gave Her Majesty a homemade tea cozy and a collectively sewn quilt for the infant Prince William...
...real-life Queen and Knave of Hearts (Taylor and Burton) have been plotting a return to Broadway in Noel Coward's Private Lives. Meanwhile, Richard's daughter Kate Burton (by his first wife Sybil) has finished her Coward duties with George C. Scott in Present Laughter, and is moving on to Lewis Carroll in Alice in Wonderland. The Broadway show is set to open on Dec. 23, commemorating the 150th anniversary of Carroll's birth and the 50th anniversary of Actress Eva Le Gallienne's original stage presentation. Inspired by the illustrations of Sir John Tenniel...
...DIED. Sybil Leek, 65, matronly British-born doyenne of the occult and the world's most visible witch; of cancer; in Melbourne, Fla. Leek traced her psychic ancestry back to the Crusades and staunchly described her faith as a legitimate religion. But as a writer, she cheerfully supplied supernatural overlays for such pop topics as assassination conspiracies, eventually parlaying her gregarious wit into four companies, regular television appearances and even cosmic cosmetics...